Chapter 1 Landscape Blurs

1. Introduction

2. From Film to Digital

3. Equipment

4. Quality of Light

5. Lenses

6. Processing

7. Conclusion

Chapter 2 Landscape Blurs

1. Introduction

2. Processing Workflow

3. RAW Conversion In Lightroom

4. A - Histogram, color balance and exposure adjustments

5. B - All the other adjustments I made in Lightroom

6. C - Lightroom Presets

7. A - Selective Color

8. B - Black Point Adjustment Curve

9. C - High Pass Contrast Filter

10. D - Smudge Tool

11. E - Shadows/Highlights Adjustments

12. F - Vibrance Adjustment

13. Conclusion

Chapter 3 Show Time

Chapter 4 Near and Far

1. Telescopes

2. Converting Your Lens

3. Digiscoping

4. A Simple Microscope

5. Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment

Chapter 5 Camera Obscura

1. The Pinhole

2. The Optics of Pinholes

3. Back to Our Construction Kit

4. First Attempts

5. Dirty Sensors

6. Problems with Flange Depth

Chapter 6 Graffiti Made of Light

1. Equipment

2. Your Camera

3. Sources of Light

4. Tripods

5. Other Accessories

6. Planning Your Shoot

7. What to Write?

8. When to Go Light Writing

9. Where Can I Go Light Writing?

10. How Many People Are Involved?

11. Camera Settings

12. Off into the Night!

13. Useful links and sources:

Chapter 7 The Earth from Above

1. Kites

2. The Flowform Kite

3. The Delta and the Delta Conyne Kite

4. The Rokkaku Kite

5. The Dopero Kite

6. Kites continued... Line and Accessories

7. More on Kite Safety

8. Cameras

9. Shutter Control Options

10. The Camera Rig

11. Point-and-Shoot Cameras

12. SLR Cameras

13. The Picavet

14. Kite Aerial Photography Online Resources

Chapter 8 Selective Focus

1. Modifying the Lens

2. Shoot Intuitively

3. Cleaning the Lens

Chapter 9 Color, Blur, and Verve

1. The Search for Ideas

2. Technique

Chapter 10 Diver Down

1. First Steps

2. Sources of Light

3. Underwater Camera Housings and Waterproof Compacts

4. The Nikonos V

5. ewa-marine

6. Hard Plastic Housings

7. Nikonos RS

8. Periscopes and Other Shooting Aids

9. Half and half—The Best of Both Worlds

10. Photographing Fish in Aquaria

11. For Serious Underwater Photographers

Chapter 11 Night Sights

1. Cameras and Lenses

2. The Flash Unit

3. Tripods

4. Techniques

5. Timed Multiple Exposure

6. Fill Flash

Chapter 12 The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

1. Shooting the Moon

2. Avoiding Camera Shake

3. The Top Hat Method

4. Focusing

5. The Right Place at the Right Time

6. Exposure

7. Inside Your Photos

8. Detail Photos

9. Photographing the Sun

10. Solar Exposure Times

11. Build Your Own Sun Filter

12. Additional Sun Filters

13. Specialized Solar Telescopes

14. Shooting from a Fixed Viewpoint

15. Lenses

16. Shooting Techniques

17. Photographing Star Trails

18. Image Processing on a Computer

Chapter 13 Klip-Klap

1. Viewing Techniques

2. Shooting Techniques

3. The Stereo Base

4. Links

Chapter 14 The Flatbed Camera

Chapter 15 What do You Print On?

1. Other Suitable Printers

Chapter 16 Gotcha!

1. Equipment

2. The Basic Setup

3. Choosing Your Subject and Planning Your Shot

4. The Famous Egg

Chapter 17 Soft-Focus Lens

1. Preparing for the Shoot

2. Applying the Vaseline

3. Horizontal Smears

4. Vertical Smears

5. Diagonal Smears

6. Circular Smears

7. Radial Smears

8. Partial Smears

9. Clear Center

10. Make X Patterns

11. Experiment

12. Shooting Techniques

13. Cleaning Off the Filter

Chapter 18 Little Planets

1. Spherical Panoramas

2. Recommended Equipment

3. Shooting Technique

4. Capturing the Nadir

5. Skillfully Twisted

6. A Few Words about HDR Panoramas

7. An Alternative Tool for the Thrifty

8. Interactive Planets

9. Useful links:

Chapter 19 Light Changes Everything

1. Introduction

2. Outdoor People Shoot

3. Indoor/Studio People Shoot

4. Conclusions

Chapter 20 A View From Above

1. Materials List

2. Step by Step Instructions for Construction

3. Using the Aerial Photography Monopod in the Real World

4. Real World Photo Examples

Chapter 21 Camera Hacking

1. Modifying Your Firmware

2. Installing CHDK

3. RAW Processing

4. Additional Functionality

5. Scripts

6. Motion Detection Scripts

7. Configuring a Script

8. Sample Script

9. Conclusions